Today sees AMD lift the lid on the first of it's next generation Radeon HD 5800 series GPUs featuring DirectX 11 support. All the big vendors (Sapphire, XFX, ASUS ...

AMD impressed reviewers and customers alike with the release of its new generation of DirectX 11 capable graphics cards, the Radeon HD 5870 and Radeon HD 5850. These cards, which generally list ...

The architecture is based on last year’s Radeon HD 5800 graphics cards, but the HD 6800 cards also incorporatea host of optimizations such as improved tessellation performance, better video ...

Dropping its chip manufacturing process from 55 nanometers to 40 nanometers in the Radeon HD 5800 series has let AMD ramp up the speeds and feeds of its new chips impressively over those of the ...

The Radeon HD 5800 series is also outfitted with an enhanced version of the ATI UVD 2 video engine. Although the vast majority of the features of the UVD 2 engine remain unchanged from the Radeon ...

AMD Changes the Game with ATI Radeon™ HD 5800 Series DirectX® 11-Compliant Graphics Cards, Harnessing the Most Powerful Processor Ever Created World's Most Advanced Graphics Processor Allows ...

This one, however, might be true. It is now rumored that compared to the Radeon 4850 (RV770) the Radeon 5850 (Cypress -- RV870 ) will be roughly 1.6 times faster than the older chip. Looks like ...

The slide compares Radeon HD 6700 series to couple of Radeon HD 5700 and 5800 series cards, which gives you a more clear picture of what we can expect once these cards show up at the market.

The Radeon HD 5870 was in fact launched at 399 USD, but quickly rose (artificially) to 470 USE because there was no competition. Currently you can purchase a Radeon HD 5870 for $414.99 (cheapest ...

As far as AMD is concerned, the Radeon HD 5800 series has now been discontinued. The HD 5700-based parts will continue to be manufactured, as will the dual-GPU Radeon HD 5970. The Radeon HD 6970 ...

Share As it turns out, Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 470 and 480 graphics cards pose no great threat to AMD’s Radeon HD 5800 series. AMD might be reticent to enact price cuts as a result, but according ...

We thought maybe it would be fun to play off of AMD's tree-laden GPU codenames to come up with an interesting segue into the Radeon HD 5800 series' power efficiency. But we came up short.